For the annual World Cancer Day on the 4th of February, the European Unions Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) organised an innagural project showcase event under the motto “Fostering synergies to beat cancer: The impact of EU-funded projects“. This event brought together representatives of projects funded by the European Commission that focus on cancer...
Honja Hama and Igor Grabovac visited the European Cancer Summit between 20th and 22nd of November in Brussels. The European Cancer Summit is a high level event organized by the European Cancer Organisation and brings academic researchers, medical practitioners involved in cancer prevention and care and policy makers from national and EU levels. We are...
Our very own Hanna Mües defended her doctoral thesis “Too stressed for sex? Associations between sexual experiences, sexual behaviour, stress and stress consequences” at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology under the guidance of Prof Urs Nater. We are very proud of Hanna and her achievement and are happy to report that Hanna is...
Yesterday the Medical University of Vienna and our team had the great pleasure of hosting the European cluster on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection – Implementation Research for the first annual cluster meeting. Over 40 delegates from EU funded Horizon Europe projects came to Vienna to discuss important topics regarding data management and potential for...
A new article titled “Health literacy and empowerment for people with severe mental illnesses” and published in psychopraxis.neuropraxis provides insights into the relevance of improving health literacy and empowerment, especially for people with mental ill-health. People with mental ill-health are faced with a high disease burden as well as somatic health risks. The situation is...
On April 23rd 2024, Hanna Mües held a guest lecture on “Barriers and facilitators of healthcare access for people with mental health problems” as part of the seminar “Abnormal psychology: Social cognition and clinical disorders” organised by Ekaterina Pronizius from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna at IES Vienna. IES Vienna is...
Our new exciting project CO-CAPTAIN – Cancer Prevention among Individuals with Mental Ill-Health: Co-adapting and Implementing Patient Navigation for Primary Cancer Prevention is on the way and last month the members of the Consortium met in Vienna to kick off the projects. During the two days in Vienna, representatives of eleven partners in the Consortium...
Our team lead by Igor Grabovac has been successful in securing funding from the Horizon Europe programme from the European Commission looking into patient navigation in cancer prevention services for people experiencing mental-ill health in Europe. Project entiteld “CO-CAPTAIN: Cancer Prevention among Individuals with Mental-Ill Health: Co-Adapting and Implementing Patient Navigation for Primary Cancer Prevention”...